The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) strongly condemns the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s release of proposed regulations on the nation’s first ever federal private school voucher program. The federal ...

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Advancement Project, and 14 other civil rights organizations yesterday urged governors in all fifty states and the District of Columbia to reject the invitation for ...

A New Report Finds NYPD Failed to Document Nearly 10,000 Stops in 2025, Findings and Reveals how NYPD Continues to Flout ...

Immigrants’ rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit today challenging President Trump’s new executive order targeting ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision allowing the Trump Administration to resume use of the flawed, ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a misleading announcement, claiming that it had “ended” more than 50 federal school desegregation cases. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) decried the ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion, OCA – ...

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, leaders from prominent national Black and Latino civil rights and advocacy organizations hosted a press conference to underscore the urgent need to protect ...

Read a PDF of our statement here. The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction BOSTON — This evening, a ...

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted letters to Congress and to the United Nations urging officials to take immediate action to examine the growing number of suspicious deaths of Black people ...